. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . rnals shows:— Jul II 14th, ISIS.—At Mercaston. Since I was there last, Rowland Kirkland has died, and his two sons, of the small-pox They were all three buried in about a fortnight. Sarah Kirkland thought that the youngest had obtained meresThe other was brought into liberty by Mary Hawksley and died happy. The oldman has been a steady pilgrim a long time ; he died proclaiming Victory to thelast. His death has made a stop in building the Chapel at Mercaston. [There hadbeen a movement for a Chapel, and Rowland had agreed to provide th
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . rnals shows:— Jul II 14th, ISIS.—At Mercaston. Since I was there last, Rowland Kirkland has died, and his two sons, of the small-pox They were all three buried in about a fortnight. Sarah Kirkland thought that the youngest had obtained meresThe other was brought into liberty by Mary Hawksley and died happy. The oldman has been a steady pilgrim a long time ; he died proclaiming Victory to thelast. His death has made a stop in building the Chapel at Mercaston. [There hadbeen a movement for a Chapel, and Rowland had agreed to provide the site.] Howit will be now is not yet known. The Mary Hawksley of the foregoing extract was the wife of a soldier away in Spainat the wars. She had been brought into straits through having to quit her mothershome for no other reason than that the kind of religion she had adopted they could notaway with. Hugh Bourne once more combined charity with zeal for the furtherance ofthe gospel. Recognising Marys piety and her undeveloped gifts for usefulness, he. SARAH KIKKLANO. 178 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. made her (May, 1813,) a salaried evangelist, working chiefly at first in connection withthe Hulland Tract Mission. Doubtless she is the other preacher referred to by Bournein his History. Two of the preachers raised up by these means [the visiting and prayingcompanies] were women. And one of them, a middle-aged woman, labouredconsiderably as a travelling preacher. The other a young woman, Sarah Kirkland,. . laboured at large as a diligent, laborious travelling preacher for a numberof years with great credit and success. Those were the first women-preachers wholaboured regularly in this Connexion. So let place be yielded to Mary Hawksley as second female-preacher. Soon we shallhave to follow closely the purposeful fruitful movements of Sarah Kirkland.
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